[Coco] Weird SDC Issue

Jeff Teunissen deek at d2dc.net
Wed May 20 20:41:43 EDT 2020


I always start my absolute SDC paths with /, and it always works.
_Not_ doing that that seems "dangerous" to me.

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:55 PM Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>
> Ed,
>
> Hard to tell if that was a typo or intentional. The command should be
> DRIVE 0,"HDBDOS.DSK" or perhaps DRIVE 0,"VHD/HDBDOS.DSK". In short, you
> don't want to start with a / as it makes no sense.
> If the path is not correct, you may not get an error message but you certainly
> will not get a disk change, so SDCX.DSK will still be mounted.
>
> Also you can check to see what get mounted with
> DRIVE
> and you will get the list of the 4 mounted drives.
>
> Robert
>
> Ed Orbea wrote:
> > By default (via startup.cfg) I auto-mount SCDX.DSK disk into drive 0
> >
> > Sporadically, when not using the SCDX program (rather from the READY prompt) I try to mount another
> > disk as drive 0 (ex: DRIVE 0,"/HDBDOS.DSK"). The name is just an example.
> >
> > When I then enter the DIR command, instead of the HDBDOS.DSK directory, the SDCX.DSK directory is
> > displayed.
> >
> > My MCU version is 120, and SDC-DOS version is 1.6
> >
> > Has anybody else experienced this issue?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
>
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